Lead me into the still waters of your living Grace Lord
make me the apple of your eye, the tip of your sword
Bring me into the light, let your sun shine on my soul
turn me into a star and beam me from earth's shoal
Take me to your bosom, rock me like a wayward child
jewel of my heart, be the living word on my still-breath
Connect my mind to my heart and help me to re-new,
when I'm stressed and taking on more than I can chew.
Father of lost children, sick, poor and hungry, take me
into the oceans of your Mercy and Compassionate Love
Paterfamilias, ... cured I shall be with one touch of you,
or on the other side of heaven, if you asked me to
Lead me into the still waters of your living Grace Lord
make me the apple of your eye, the tip of your sword.
Amen
Dedicated to my brother in law Joe, who is passing away.
Activate the Argument
David J Walker
A one-world lonely drop
One word then two
From a pile of past important papers
Pinned in the permanent ink of
atavistic fears and instincts
picking
three words then four
voices heard
unseen
in a perturbed
rebirth of a past
manuscript
what has she seen
and when did she see it
what did she mean
and when did she mean it
five words
then six
as thick
as an August evening
on a screened-in porch
You explain
I am the path
But not its patron
I am
The Paterfamilias
And not its Matron
Eight words then ten
And it’s over enough to
Start again
Setting sun
Splash of burgundy paan-spit
and the paterfamilias nodding off
pink filial freeness
silhouetted against a crimson feel- flare
(or was it orange flair or even purple fair)
symbiotic exchanges
slapstick sequences
elfin hemlines and tarty décolletages
catching agoraphobic impulses
homing…
04 aug 13
For Charlotte's contest
Contemplate the word paterfamilias
Head of the household
Chief provider and protector
The Patriarch
Ceaseless searching
Selfless in his duty
Clothe the babes in love
The Patriarch
Understand the word paterfamilias
Discipline, respect, and sacrifice
But also
The Patriarch
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